Solidarity of Empire

Manawatu Times, Volume LIX, Issue 7472, 24 May 1934, Page 7

Solidarity of Empire

Governor-Generals Empire Day Message

PLEA TO REMEMBER OBLIGATIONS Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Last ..Night. The following message to the people of New Zealand has been issued by the Governor-General: “This being Empire Day, I desire to extend a friendly greeting to bis Majesty’s subjects 'of both races in this Dominion and to express the earnest hope that the clouds of industrial depression, which for the last three years have hung like a pall ovef New Zealand, in common with other parts of the Empire, may, during the next 12 months, give place to the sunshine of economic prosperity and fresh hope and confidence.

“That the Dominion has weathered the economic blizzard as well as she has, is due in no small degree to the courage, patience and mutual helpfulness of her virile population of all classes. If the British Empire is to preserve her strength and her immeasurable power for promoting peace and prosperity throughout the world, these qualities must be maintained in the less stressful days which appear to lie ahead of us, both within our own national borders and within those of our more extensive Imperial heritage.

“The stability and influence of the British Empire depend largely upon the sense of comradeship, consciousness of identity of interest, and mutual sympathy existing between its several parts ,and especially between the Dominions and the Mother Country. Imperial solidarity is of the very essence of Empire prosperity; so on Empire Day let us each and all remember the obligation which rests upon us to do our utmost to promote it and thus, with God’s blessing, to advance the welfare of mankind.”